Jerry Kirchner has over 20 years of experience in IT management roles. He has held various positions at Cardinal Health and Champion International, managing teams and multi-million dollar budgets. Most recently, as Supervisor of Release Management at Cardinal Health, he improved processes to increase corporate participation by 250% and reduced change review cycles from 14-18 days to 3 days.

1. Jerry L. Kirchner, Jr. 3545 Patcon Way
jerrykirchner@wowway.com Hilliard, OH 43026
614-893-6398
_________________________________Professional Experience_______________________________
Cardinal Health Inc. ($99 Billion Health Care Company)
Supervisor, Release Management 2008 - Present
 Drove ITSM Transition for Release Management
 Developed the Release Management process Center of Excellence (COE), supporting multiple
applications
 Increased the corporate participation in the process by 250%
 Responsible for forecasting and tracking a $2+ million annual budget
 Participated in Change Control process improvement project
 Reduced change review cycle time from 14 – 18 days down to 3 days
 Decreased emergency and expedited changes by 37%
Supervisor, Configuration Management 2006 – 2008
 Developed and managed the Configuration Management team that would support multiple technology
platforms
 Managed the development of build and deployment automation
 Supported a multi-year financial systems business transformation program
 Developed a SOX-compliant deployment approval process for the financial systems
 Managed the continuous process improvement of the Configuration Management process
 Educated the organization on the Configuration Management process through multiple presentations
Team Lead, Configuration Management 2003 – 2006
 Actively participated in defining CMMI practices for the organization
 Implemented CMMI Configuration Management practice supporting multiple projects
 Managed the project that assessed and acquired a source code repository tool
 Developed and implemented a process for development teams to request ETL deployments
Sr. Programmer Analyst 1997 – 2003
 Managed $250K+ project to develop Retail Business Conference (RBC) data warehouse and reporting
capability
 Collaborated with the business team to develop, write and approve requirements
 Designed and developed the data warehouse, ETL process and reporting capability
 Managed the development team that built the applications
 Performed Tier 3 support on data warehouse reporting
 Designed and developed sales data warehouse reports
 Technical lead for the design and development of inventory movement and operations data warehouse
reporting
 Managed contract developers

2. Jerry L. Kirchner, Jr. 3545 Patcon Way
jerrykirchner@wowway.com Hilliard, OH 43026
614-893-6398
_____________________________Prior Professional Experience_______________________________
Champion International ($7 Billion Paper Products Company)
System Analyst 1993 – 1997
 Interfaced with the team that developed the corporate data warehouse capability
 Design lead for the division that fed the corporate data warehouse structure
 Designed logical and physical data flows for transaction systems
 Managed the team that developed and supported the decision support system
 Worked with Vice President of Sales to develop requirements
 Designed a PC-based solution
 Technical lead supporting an order entry and production planning application
 Performed all DBA functions supporting the order entry and production planning application
 Responsible for Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 support calls
 Designed application enhancements base on user requests
 Managed team that developed application enhancements
Programmer Analyst 1989 – 1993
 Developed an order entry and production planning application
 Developed and executed unit, functional, and system test cases and plans
 Teamed with users executing user test cases and plans
Technologies:
Informatica, MicroStrategy, Business Objects, Rational Tool Suite, Teradata, SQL Server, DB2, CMMI,
ITIL
Education:
The Ohio State University; Columbus, OH
Bachelors of Science in Business Administration (Management Information Systems)
Community Service:
Darby Glen Community Association 2006 - Present
Board Member
Beacon Elementary PTO 2009 – Present
Volunteer
Columbus Zoo & Aquarium 1998 - Present
Volunteer